Credits

PROJECT PARTNERS

Produced by The Kentucky Folklife Program

The Kentucky Folklife Program is housed in the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology in Potter College of Arts and Letters at Western Kentucky University.

Executive Director: Brent Bjorkman

Folklife Specialists: Joel Chapman and Camille Acosta

Graduate Assistants: Kayt Novak and Justin Smith

Oral history interviews conducted by Brielle Freedman and Clare Coleman as part of Dr. Ann Ferrell’s Spring 2022 Oral History Class at WKU; and Folk Studies graduate student Ciara Bernal during a Summer 2023 internship.

Funding Support from

National Endowment for the Arts

South Arts

Kentucky Arts Council

Kentucky Oral History Association

CREATIVE DESIGN + USER EXPERIENCE

J.B. Carter: Lead Designer + Creative Director

Joel Chapman: Lead Designer + Research & Account Executive

Preliminary Design Research: Jake Rosenburg

Design Assistance: Tiffany Isselhardt

ADVISORY TEAM

Erika Brady

Chris Carmichael

Matt Pfefferkorn

Jeffrey Sweeney

NARRATIVE
TEXT

Joel Chapman + Brent Bjorkman

Kentucky Folklife Program

Editor: Susanna Pyatt

Research

ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS FROM

Chris Carmichael
David Dorris
David Dye
John Edmonds
Nathan Fielder
Scott Gardner
Summer Graves
Lisa Oliver Gray
Pat Haney
Byron House
Jim Hudson
Graham Hudspeth

Bones Kaelin
Hazel Johnson
Tommy Johnson
Jeff Jones
Joseph Jones
Jerry King
Bill Lloyd
Greg Martin
Jack Montgomery
Jonell Mosser
Derik Overstreet
Marc Owens

Cassidy Pfefferkorn
Matt Pfefferkorn
Ernie Small
Jeff Smith
Kenny Lee Smith
Tommy Star
Jeffrey Sweeney
Elsie Taylor
Skip David Walker
Scott Willis
Joel Whittinghill
Tommy Womack
Eugenia Wylie
Hughie Wylie

PHOTOS & IMAGERY FROM

A Special thanks to Scott Willis for his excellent photography, without which this website would not be possible.

Joel Chapman
David Dorris
Kelley Hammers
Michelle Hendrix
Bones Kaelin
Jeffrey Sweeney
Scott Willis
Jerry Wilson

Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce
Country Music Hall of Fame

Historic Railpark and Train Museum in Bowling Green
Lost River Sessions
Malone, Bill c., and Sarah Gertrude Knott. 1970. Country Music USA

Picasso’s Nightclub Facebook page
William Ferris Collection, University of Mississippi
WKU Special Collections
WKU Archives

BIBLIOGRAphy

Brady, Erika. 2013. “Arnold Shultz and the Music of Western Kentucky” in Hidden in the Mix, ed. Diane Pecknold, p. 100-119. Chapel Hill, NC: Duke University Press.

Carney, George O. 1994. The Sounds of People and Places : a Geography of American Folk and Popular Music. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Filene, Benjamin. 2000. Romancing the Folk : Public Memory & American Roots Music. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.

Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, “Interview with Odis Blanton (FA 369)” (1983). FA Oral Histories. Paper 443. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fa_oral_hist/443

Kelly Thompson Chapter, Public Relations Student Society of America, “UA68/13/4 Bowling Green, Vol. 4, No. 1” (1983). Student Organizations. Paper 276. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/stu_org/276

Malone, Bill C., and Sarah Gertrude Knott. 1970. Country Music USA. Third Printing. Austin, TX: University of Texas for the American Folklore Society.

Nelson, James. 1994. Hillbilly Music & Early Live Radio Programming in Bowling Green & Glasgow, Kentucky: Country Music as a Local Phenomenon. MA Thesis, Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies, Western Kentucky University. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4156&context=theses

Richey, Nancy, and Carlton Jackson. 2016. Mose Rager: Kentucky’s Incomparable Guitar Master. Morley, MO: Acclaim Press.

Montell, William Lynwood. 1991. Singing The Glory Down: Amateur Gospel Music in South Central Kentucky, 1900-1990. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.

Sarig, Roni. 2007. Third Coast : OutKast, Timbaland, and How Hip-Hop Became a Southern Thing. 1st Da Capo Press ed. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.

Varajon, Sydney. Masters Capstone Project, 2017. The Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology at Western Kentucky University.

Walker, William, and Glenn C. Wilcox. 1993. The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion : Containing a Choice Collection of Tunes, Hymns, Psalms, Odes, and Anthems, Selected from the Most Eminent Authors in the United States and Well Adapted to Christian Churches of Every Denomination, Singing Schools, and Private Societies : with a Musical Anthology on Compact Disc. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.

Wolfe, Charles K. 2015. Kentucky Country: Folk and Country Music of Kentucky. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky

Womack, Tommy. 1995. Cheese Chronicles : The True Story of a Rock and Roll Band You’ve Never Heard Of. Nashville, TN: Eggman Publishing.

Information for “Places of Sound: Venues; History of the Quonset Auditorium” provided by the research of Dr. Amber Riddington.

Information on Arnold Schultz for “Confluence of Genres” supported by research from Dr. Erika Brady.

Information on John Edmonds for “Music of the Sacred” provided by research from Dr. Erika Brady.